by the lights of volcano fire tonight

  

journey, path, experience

metaphoric life in throes of meaning

gentle journey

ebullient path

myriad experience

ribboned and honored as art

 

 

 

it is seeming that most of what we decry

is merely propaganda, cynical politicians

creating angst, anger, violent confrontations,

whatever will sell their brand

 

 

 

 

a race is a contest of speed,

or sometimes a species

the concept of these human subspecies

based on specious ideas of ancestry

is an evil myth to perpetuate an evil cult

devised for hierarchy

 

 

 

 

the Republican Party has a deep crazy solution

 -- attract the fringe folk who regular people

shun and now you have a loyal army

without the limits of sanity

 

 

 

Wouldn't a culture of democracy --

rule by the people,

better be paired with socialism --

economy for the people,

than economy for the economically

elite?

 

 

 

It takes away from all potential

lives

to have to live

within a lie.

 

 

 

We're living in a time

when everybody has a voice,

no excuses -- you refuse to engage,

that's your choice.

More responsibility

to think, to look, listen, to learn.

No responsibility but what we

will, what compels despite

reluctance, pull of

anonymity, isolation.

 

 

 

Stop wasting our minds

on promoting pre-ordered isms,

tying up practical reality in divisive ideals.

Understand, some services are better

supplied by organized governments,

some by private enterprise, some by NGOs,

as we discover how we do best.

The point, the goal, the reason

is that everyone gets what we need to

continue and grow, that everyone

sincerely believes and acts within

our common creed of responsibility

for our communities thus that all co-create

background ecology  to live well.

 

 

 

4/26-29/21